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Brampton Factor: Open source goes commercial
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| Businesses may be comfortable using well-known open source products. But how
| will they take to more modest efforts? Martin Brampton looks at one
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[News] Free Software Turns to Business, Without the Lock-ins

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Brampton Factor: Open source goes commercial

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| Businesses may be comfortable using well-known open source products. But how
| will they take to more modest efforts? Martin Brampton looks at one
| commercial wannabe.
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| Is the arrival of Acquia an indication of changing times for open source?
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| If you have not heard of Acquia, you may have heard of Drupal, a popular open
| source content management systems (CMS). Acquia is a commercial operation set
| up to deliver Drupal software packages and services.
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| Monopolies Don’t Require Lock-in
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| Google has (effectively) a monopoly on consumer search. They have no lock-in;
| anyone who wants to can switch their default search provider in a few
| seconds. One could write a book, and several people have, about how they
| maintain their grip on the market, but let’s skip that and just see this as
| an existence proof.
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| Which is to say, history tells us that Hugh Macleod’s vision of a single
| insanely-huge cloud provider is perfectly believable.
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